People have been requesting for an update, so here it is! I'm sorry if I don't update very often, but I am in college and it's the not the most easiest thing. Especially since I don't normally have too much free time and midterms are coming up, so I wouldn't expect another one to come too soon. I do want to thank everyone for the support you've shown with this story though. It does mean a lot, and seeing people enjoy this really makes me quite happy. But anyhow, I hope y'all enjoy this chapter! Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 7: A Bad Situation
What is this horrible creature?
"H-his aura…" It frightened me. It wasn't right...it wasn't natural…
Sly cast an annoyed glare my way. "All these Pokemon murdered and you're worried about his aura?"
"Of course I'm worried about the Pokemon! But you can't see his aura like I can!" I shook my head furiously, trying to dispel the frightening thoughts away.
"Well his aura isn't important right now! Now snap out of it so we can get this over with!' He whispered harshly, turning to glare at the unnatural Luxray.
Before I could say anything else, Sly opened his maw and fired an Extrasensory. The gold and rainbow colored beam hitting the Luxray dead in the face. Only...it didn't do anything. It was completely unfazed by the attack.
"What?" Sly gaped, Scar's deadly red eyes focusing on us.
The Luxray let out a screeching howl and sprinted towards us, cloaking itself in a strange dark purple electricity. We leaped out of the way from the oncoming Wild Charge and I watched as Sly ineffectively used Night Slash as the move did little damage.
"Dammit, snap out of it already! Are you going to help or not?" He barked at me.
"Oh, um, y-yeah." Scar proceeded to ram into the wall and hoping to subdue him quickly, I brought my paw up and used Psychic. Much like Sly's Extrasensory though, it failed to work.
Our Psychic moves did nothing to this creature and Sly's Night Slash did little to faze the beast. Am I missing something? "Sly, Psychic isn't working! Are Luxray normally Dark Types?"
The Zoroark looked at me like I was crazy. "Are you stupid? Luxray are pure Electric Types. You're just not strong enough to use a move like that."
"Oh really? And I suppose you want to give me an explanation as to why your Extrasensory didn't work?" I snapped.
"Well fine then!" If you're so smart, then try using a Fighting move on it!" He snapped back.
"Fine!" I rushed towards the recovering Luxray, preparing to strike with a Force Palm.
I only encountered one problem though. My fist went right through him as if he was some ghostly apparition. I gasped in surprise as my balance was disrupted and I stumbled through the Luxray, sprawling out into the cold snow.
A menacing growl sounded above me and I quickly flipped onto my back, bringing my left arm up just in time to avoid being clawed in the face by the bloodthirsty Luxray.
His claws raked across my arm, producing deep ragged cuts along it. I hissed in pain from the impact and Scar's fangs became cloaked in a dark purple fire. Before he could bite me though, I kicked him hard in the gut and sent him flying.
Sly finally stepped in and encased him in a shroud of fire, cutting off the stream a few seconds later. The Luxray's pure black fur was not charred in some places, smoke rising from his body.
I stood up, blood streaming from my new wound, wincing as the pain increased to an agonizing pain as I put my weight on it.
Sly looked at the wound from where he was standing. "Great. Now I'm probably gonna get blamed for this."
"Oh chill. How were we supposed to know I was gonna faze through him?" I huffed and rolled my eyes.
"Fazed? Looks more like you missed." He snorted, dodging Scar as he went for another Wild Charge.
"I didn't miss, my fist passed right through him as he was a Ghost type. Now if you don't believe me then why don't you use Focus Blast on him?" I was beginning to grow extremely irritated at my partner.
He rolled his eyes in answer. "Whatever. I'll trust what you say. Now let's get this over with so we can patch up your arm."
Without another word I turned towards our opponent and put my paws together, bringing them apart as a bone composed of light green energy formed between them. Scar charged at me and as he came close enough, I hit him upside the head with a well placed swing using Bone Rush.
Scar let out an ear piercing wail as the super effective hit made contact and proceeded to slam into Sly as he went sailing.
My teammate let out an infuriated growl. "You couldn't have sent him in a different direction?"
"It's not like I intended for it to happen. Besides, you should have been watching where you were going." I snickered, watching the Zoroark as he shoved Scar's heavy body off of him.
"I don't have time for this. Now knock him out with another Bone Rush so we can end this." His eyes began to glow a bright green and several vines snaked up out of the snow, tying up around Scar's feet and immobilizing him.
The strange Luxray began to thrash about, trying to escape from his bonds. Before he escaped I quickly formed another Bone Rush and knocked him out. As I gazed upon the fallen Luxray, I tuned into his aura once more. Generally when a Pokemon is unconscious, their auras take on a much calmer state. However, this was certainly not the case this time as Scar's aura was just as chaotic as it had been when he was awake.
Watching Sly take out a rope from the inside of his explorers bag, I slowly stepped up and used Force Palm on the unconscious Pokemon, watching as his form wavered and my paw pass right through him.
"What the hell?" The Zoroark looked on in confusion as I brought my fist back out, Scar's body returning to a solid state.
"Told you." I simply answered, not having an explanation for the strange occurrence either.
"Well don't leave me in the dark! What the hell's wrong with him?" He glared at me.
"How the hell should I know? I've never seen anything like this!" I glared back.
"You're the aura seer, you tell me!"
"You can't tell what a Pokemon is simply by looking at their aura. The aura is a Pokemon's life energy. The only things I can tell are their state of health, mind, and emotions. That's it, nothing else! What I CAN tell you is that there is definitely something wrong with Scar. No aura should like his did!" I yelled angrily. I didn't care if I woke the Luxray up at this point, I'd just hit with another Bone Rush.
"Then what is so "wrong" with his aura?" Sly's own aura was getting as angry as I felt.
"It's not natural! Even the cruelest Pokemon alive has at least SOME light coming from their aura. But not his, his was the darkest shades of black and purple you could possibly imagine. It had the most negative emotions you can feel! They were so strong and angry, they were hanging around him like a thick fog! So thick that not even a Bisharp's blades could cut it! No aura like this should even exist! In fact, this Luxray shouldn't even exist! This isn't NATURAL! Not in the least bit! That's what's "wrong", Sly!" I screamed, letting my temper and stress get the best of me before walking off angrily towards the exit.
I was still incredibly angry once I reached the beginning entrance of Frozen Forest, and frankly I wanted to just keep walking. But unfortunately I didn't know the way back to Daylight Square and therefore had to wait on my infuriating partner to show the way.
Soon enough though, he came out dragging Scar behind him. "Did you finally stop bleeding?" He cast a sideways glance.
I looked down in half anger, half surprise. The bleeding had actually stopped, but only because the wound had frozen over from the intense cold. Looking at it, I suddenly began to feel drained and I wobbled unsteadily.
Sly moved to grab my arm, but I pushed it away. "Don't…"
"I don't care if you're still mad at me. The blood will unfreeze eventually and you'll start losing more. At this rate you'll bleed to death before we make it back to the Guild." He rolled his eyes.
"Well then why not just let me die? With me out of the way you'll have the team all to yourself again like we all know you want!"
His eyes turned into angry slits. "Now hold on here! I may not want you here, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna let you die on me if I can help it. My job is to rescue Pokemon in need, including Guild members. So shut up and give me your arm!"
After a bit of effort, Sly finally got my arm bandaged up. He actually had to use a few small Flamethrowers (well, more like Embers but Zoroark can't learn that) in order to melt the blood that had frozen over in order for him to properly wrap it up.
Our journey back home was mostly filled with silence, the only talk coming from Sly whenever he needed to change the bandages and the times when Scar awoke, only to be knocked out by one or two attacks from us. It wouldn't be good to have him awake, not knowing the extent of his powers it would be best to keep him asleep as much as possible.
On our fifth day of traveling, we finally made it back to Daylight Square much to my relief. The square was as bustling as ever, a few onlookers gazing to watch us pass while we dragged our captured outlaw behind us.
A few minutes later, we entered the Guild and came upon the request room. "Where's Darian?" Sly barked at the approaching Miss Blair.
"Don't yell at me, but I'm glad you're both back. Guildmaster Darian is in his office. Why do you need to see him?" The Braixen raised an eyebrow at the fox's rude behavior, although she must be pretty used to it by now.
"Ask her." He huffed and dropped the Luxray's rope, leaving him with me and Miss Blair while he walked to the Guildmaster's office.
"Lucy? What's going on?" She asked, concern and hesitation lacing her tone.
"Um…" I bit my lip and shifted around uncomfortably. "I'd rather explain it with the Guildmaster present."
The fox furrowed her eyebrows, but she didn't pester me for details. She did, however, notice my bandaged arm. "What happened to you?"
"Oh. Scar attacked me. Sly was able to take care of it though." I waved it off, trying not to press into the matter as it dealt with Scar's unusual biology.
Thankfully enough, Sly arrived with Darian and all eyes were on me. Sighing as I evidently had to be the one to explain things, I grudgingly recounted our time with Scar. As I told about his strange aura and unnatural biology (for a Luxray anyways), both Darian and Miss Blair became increasingly alarmed.
"Darian! You don't think this is-" She was cut off, gasping as she gazed at the Sawsbuck with wide eyes.
"Blair, go fetch Team Eon!" He barked. Darian was tense as the Braixen scrambled to get the mentioned team.
"What's going on?" Sly asked, clearly angry to be out of the loop.
The Guildmaster ignored us, however, as he continued to stare at the unconscious form of Scar with an intense look.
Blair soon returned, a Glaceon, Leafeon, and Espeon following close behind. "Sir, I've brought Team Eon."
"Good. Now, take Team Eon with you and head to Quicksand Pass. Find Sid in the Ancient Ruins to the north of it and bring him here!" He instructed the four.
Without questions asked Team Eon followed Miss Blair out of the Guild, although judging from their expressions they were quite confused with the current situation.
"Darian! Are you gonna explain what's going on or what?" Sly yelled, grabbing the attention of a few members who were loitering about.
The Sawsbuck sighed, although his tension didn't cease. "Everything will be explained once those four come back with Sid. Just know that the situation is very worrying...and very bad."